Acronis Server Cloud Backup - User Guide - Manual (Page 11)

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VMware vSphere / ESX / ESXi and Workstation
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Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual PC
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and KVM
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Citrix XenServer
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Parallels Workstation and Server Bare Metal
Small Office Backup also lets you create a bootable CD-R/DVD-R that can back up and recover a
disk/partition on a computer running any Intel- or AMD- based PC operating system, including
Linux®. (Note that the Intel-based Apple Macintosh is not supported.)
1.1.4.3 Supported file systems
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FAT16/32
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NTFS
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Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 *
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ReiserFS *
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JFX *
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Linux SWAP *
If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis Small Office Backup can copy data using a
sector-by-sector approach.
* The Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, JFX, and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition
backup/recovery operations. You also cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with these file systems.
1.1.4.4 Supported storage media
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Hard disk drives*
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Solid State Drives (SSD)
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FTP servers**
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CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R,
BD-RE***
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USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) and PC card storage devices
* Acronis Small Office Backup does not support the following dynamic volume types: Mirrored and
RAID-5.
Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported
** An FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers. For data to be recovered directly from an
FTP server, the backup must consist of files no greater than 2GB each.
The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TPC and
UDP protocols to function. The Routing and Remote Access Windows service should be disabled.
*** Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch.
1.1.4.5 SSD support
The recommended offset for Solid State Drives (SSD) is a multiple of 64 KB (most commonly, 1024KB
or 2048 sectors).